For a great analysis of why the Titanic sank, see Roy Brander's articles
Re:Actually, the UNIX market share is going down..
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That's because the total market is going up (just more slowly, because of a recession)
I'll worry about Sun and IBM if they can't increase their market share over a five year span.
I'll worry if the number of machines they sell doesn't increase. The desktop market (windoze + some mac) is larger and will grow faster than the server (unix + some windoze) & specialty workstation (unix, mac + some windoze) markets , but...
all 3 markets are usually lumped together, distorting perceptions
the margins are much bigger in the second two markets, because a windoze desktop computer has become a commodity
windoze dominates whenever the computer is a standardized commodity (eg. the desktop, POS terminals), but faces real competition otherwise
M-Tech, a Calgary company makes P-Synch, a cross-platform password management system. P-Synch supports over 60 types of systems including: Unix servers, Windows NT, Windows 2000 active directory, OS390 / MVS mainframes, LDAP directories, email, groupware and popular ERP applications, such as SAP and PeopleSoft.
M-Tech showed P-Sync off to the Calgary Unix Users Group last year. When I saw your story, I immediately thought if them.
VNC will allow you to remotely administrate a machine, but it's not much good beyond that.
You could've fooled me! I work for our city government, but don't work at city hall. My job requires me to travel "downtown" several times a week. Whenever I am there, I use VNC over our lan to work on the NT box in my office, which is several miles away. I use MS Outlook, MS Office and a host of other "productivity" apps. I do this for several hours at a time, several times a week. I have VNC running as a "service", so that I can log off or lock my PC when I'm not using it.
I also occasionally use VNC to run
a Mac (OS 8.6) and another NT computer
Who's missing the point here? All this talk (aka. pissing & moaning) about content creators getting fair compensation is a red herring. The people pushing for these restrictions on what should be fair use are the DISTRIBUTERS NOT THE CREATORS. Their cozy ogliarchy is threatened by people taking advantage of new technology. They are not the producers, they are not the consumers, they are the middlemen. They are a "necessary evil" that's discovered they may soon be not be quite so necessary.
Content distributors are defending their turf in two ways:
1) Restricting the new digital technologies to keep "unofficial" distribution difficult and expensive (eg.DVD region codes)
2) Criminalizing ordinary behaviour, for example: interpersonal sharing (such as making a compilation tape or cd for a friend), academic research, reverse engineering, etc.
mutant species was unleashed on the world... 'Africanized Killer Bees'
That's are a hybrid, not a mutant... like the mule: which is a horse mated with a jackass.
It seems to me that quite a number of jackasses are getting horse in this debate.
IANAL but, I think Elcomsoft might win this one. The precident has been set... Remember the Yahoo! France Nazi auction case? A US Judge ruled that France could not regulate a company operating in the US under US law... read below...
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7815683.htm l
Court shields Yahoo from French laws
By Troy Wolverton
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 8, 2001, 2:50 p.m. PT
update Yahoo does not have to comply with a French court decision that requires the company to block Nazi-related material from French consumers, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
The French order, which was issued last year, violates Yahoo's First Amendment rights, said U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel of the Northern District of California. Fogel's ruling blocks the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) and the Union of Jewish Students, which successfully sued Yahoo in France, from enforcing a judgment against the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company.
"Although France has the sovereign right to regulate what speech is permissible in France, this court may not enforce a foreign order that violates the protections of the United States Constitution by chilling protected speech that occurs simultaneously within our borders," Fogel wrote in his decision.
...and...
http://www.ffhsj.com/bancmail/pdf/011120.pdf
U.S. Court Releases Yahoo! Inc. From Compliance
With French Court Order
21st Century Money, Banking & Commerce Alert Highlights:
U.S. district court rules that French court order regarding
Internet content is unenforceable in the U.S. because it
violates First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
Court grants broad protection to U.S. Web sites engaged in
constitutionally protected activity. Web site operators may
nevertheless decide for practical reasons to comply with
conflicting foreign law requirements.
Treaties and other international legal mechanisms are the
only comprehensive resolution of conflicts between
different legal regimes applicable to the Internet.
U.S. court says site can't be forced to comply with French laws that prohibit the sale of Nazi memorabilia.
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
Friday, November 09, 2001
A U.S. District Court judge on Wednesday dismissed a case against Yahoo by French organizations that sought to penalize the company for allowing Nazi-oriented auction items and Internet links on its U.S. Web portal.
Yahoo cannot be forced to comply with French laws against the expression of pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic views, because doing so would violate its right to free expression under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, writes Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in an order of summary judgment.
If you have an old 486 or Pentium, a couple of network cards, and a broadband connection you can build yourself a hardware firewall in about an hour with a *BSD OS. Here's the link
An OpenBSD motto, if you can call it that, is "Secure by default". One of most important things they do is to TURN THINGS OFF by default. Turning off everything except what's necessary is one of the fundamental things sysadmins will do to harden a machine. Most everyone else (especially Microsoft) leaves on all sorts of things they think you might find convenient. You need a very good sysadmin to competently harden most systems.
The point is this: if you don't know what's running, you don't know where to watch
The computer equivalent of the Bowflex sitting unused in the corner
ROTFLMAO!... beside the Nordic Track?
But I must disagree with your metaphor. It's more like a home entertainment system: some people really go ape with all latest & greatest gadgets & gear, but most folks just wanna watch TV and listen to some tunes. Hooking things up and fiddling with the controls is just a waste of time to them.
When it comes to technology, it's middle-class consumers and their tastes, needs and expectations that determine success or failure
I absolutely agree. Since the introduction of the original macintosh, Apple has been striving for an "appliance": you just plug it in and it works. There's no unnecessary complexity. You use it, you don't tweak and tune it. It's in the background.
Here's an example for you: Most people just drive their automobiles. They don't know, and don't care, how they work. With the exception of the windsheild washers, they don't check the fluid levels. They don't look for wear patterns on the tires. Many can't even change a tire or find the fuse box.
Remember the original iMac? It was pretty much universally panned by pundits, geeks and others who "know about computers"... and it sold like crazy! I see the same tired analyses trotted out this time around. They ignore the simple truth that macs are designed for the vast majority of people who don't care about computers. They want to pay attention to the work they're doing; not to the tool they are using. Cool is just the sizzle that sells the usability steak.
You know where this is heading don't you
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So...$1200 - $1800 for an iMac?.... Apple prices its products to (sic) high to make a convert out of me.
There's a good chance that those prices might be in Canadian dollars (63 cents each), since the article was in in Time Canada. The price of "old-style" iMacs is $1,200-$2,300 CDN ($800-$1,500 US)
You'll see Federal agents descending on ordinary users, people who are just "innocently" making copies of software and music and sharing it with their friends.
Actually, it's perfectly legal to make copies of music (tho' not software) and to give it away to your friends. That's why, here in Canada for example, we have a surcharge on blank tapes and recordable CDs. The surcharge is redistributed to record companies and artists as royalties. That's why it's legal to record a TV show and view it at a more convenient time. Napster users never broke the law, but Napster the company did, because it tried to be a (for profit) music distribution channel that was not authorized by people who owned the copyrights. The entertainment industry will never prosecute an individual who occasionally gives some music to a friend, because they would laughed out of court at a jury trial and then humilated in the press.
Back on the topic of this warez bust, I think the judge(s) will be pretty peeved when they find out what the actual value of these warez are, vs. the comicly overinflated numbers we've been given so far. I think that the purpose of this bust is good P.R.; not good law. IANAL, but I predict that after point has been made, most of those arrested will get off rather lightly. Besides, some of these people are at the "best" schools, and they'll have some of the "best" family & friends... another group you really don't want to piss off
There IS an ozone hole over the Arctic. Due to different weather patterns it is a bit smaller than the one over the Antarctic. The ozone holes grow every every spring and shrink later in the year. The reason you're hearing about the southern ozone hole is that it's spring in the southern hemisphere. The reason you're not hearing about the northen hole is that spring is 6 months away in the northern hemispere.
I don't plan to stop purchasing CD's... I *WILL*, however, return every defective/mis-labeled CD for a refund. Because the industry is in a downturn, "lost sales" mearly reinforce the arguments these weasels use to support copy protection. Returns, on the other hand, cost retailers and distributors "real money" and send the unambiguous message that the product is crap
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For a great analysis of why the Titanic sank, see Roy Brander's articles
That's because the total market is going up (just more slowly, because of a recession)
I'll worry if the number of machines they sell doesn't increase. The desktop market (windoze + some mac) is larger and will grow faster than the server (unix + some windoze) & specialty workstation (unix, mac + some windoze) markets , but...
M-Tech, a Calgary company makes P-Synch, a cross-platform password management system. P-Synch supports over 60 types of systems including: Unix servers, Windows NT, Windows 2000 active directory, OS390 / MVS mainframes, LDAP directories, email, groupware and popular ERP applications, such as SAP and PeopleSoft.
M-Tech showed P-Sync off to the Calgary Unix Users Group last year. When I saw your story, I immediately thought if them.
You could've fooled me! I work for our city government, but don't work at city hall. My job requires me to travel "downtown" several times a week. Whenever I am there, I use VNC over our lan to work on the NT box in my office, which is several miles away. I use MS Outlook, MS Office and a host of other "productivity" apps. I do this for several hours at a time, several times a week. I have VNC running as a "service", so that I can log off or lock my PC when I'm not using it.
I also occasionally use VNC to run a Mac (OS 8.6) and another NT computer
PS - The word is "Administer
Who's missing the point here? All this talk (aka. pissing & moaning) about content creators getting fair compensation is a red herring. The people pushing for these restrictions on what should be fair use are the DISTRIBUTERS NOT THE CREATORS. Their cozy ogliarchy is threatened by people taking advantage of new technology. They are not the producers, they are not the consumers, they are the middlemen. They are a "necessary evil" that's discovered they may soon be not be quite so necessary.
Content distributors are defending their turf in two ways:
1) Restricting the new digital technologies to keep "unofficial" distribution difficult and expensive (eg.DVD region codes)
2) Criminalizing ordinary behaviour, for example: interpersonal sharing (such as making a compilation tape or cd for a friend), academic research, reverse engineering, etc.
That's are a hybrid, not a mutant... like the mule: which is a horse mated with a jackass. It seems to me that quite a number of jackasses are getting horse in this debate.
You can say that again!
I dunno, there are projects underway; also there's the frozen sperm/egg scenario
Did you have Ross Rebagliati bringing the cables in for you?
IANAL but, I think Elcomsoft might win this one. The precident has been set... Remember the Yahoo! France Nazi auction case? A US Judge ruled that France could not regulate a company operating in the US under US law... read below...
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http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7815683.ht
Court shields Yahoo from French laws
By Troy Wolverton
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 8, 2001, 2:50 p.m. PT
update Yahoo does not have to comply with a French court decision that requires the company to block Nazi-related material from French consumers, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
The French order, which was issued last year, violates Yahoo's First Amendment rights, said U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel of the Northern District of California. Fogel's ruling blocks the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) and the Union of Jewish Students, which successfully sued Yahoo in France, from enforcing a judgment against the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company.
"Although France has the sovereign right to regulate what speech is permissible in France, this court may not enforce a foreign order that violates the protections of the United States Constitution by chilling protected speech that occurs simultaneously within our borders," Fogel wrote in his decision.
...and...
http://www.ffhsj.com/bancmail/pdf/011120.pdf
U.S. Court Releases Yahoo! Inc. From Compliance
With French Court Order
21st Century Money, Banking & Commerce Alert Highlights:
U.S. district court rules that French court order regarding
Internet content is unenforceable in the U.S. because it
violates First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
Court grants broad protection to U.S. Web sites engaged in
constitutionally protected activity. Web site operators may
nevertheless decide for practical reasons to comply with
conflicting foreign law requirements.
Treaties and other international legal mechanisms are the
only comprehensive resolution of conflicts between
different legal regimes applicable to the Internet.
...and...
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/artic
Judge Dismisses French Case Against Yahoo
U.S. court says site can't be forced to comply with French laws that prohibit the sale of Nazi memorabilia.
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
Friday, November 09, 2001
A U.S. District Court judge on Wednesday dismissed a case against Yahoo by French organizations that sought to penalize the company for allowing Nazi-oriented auction items and Internet links on its U.S. Web portal.
Yahoo cannot be forced to comply with French laws against the expression of pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic views, because doing so would violate its right to free expression under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, writes Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in an order of summary judgment.
So your argument is that the DMCA interferes with free speach, but does not violate fair use
If you have an old 486 or Pentium, a couple of network cards, and a broadband connection you can build yourself a hardware firewall in about an hour with a *BSD OS. Here's the link
The point is this: if you don't know what's running, you don't know where to watch
ROTFLMAO! ... beside the Nordic Track?
But I must disagree with your metaphor. It's more like a home entertainment system: some people really go ape with all latest & greatest gadgets & gear, but most folks just wanna watch TV and listen to some tunes. Hooking things up and fiddling with the controls is just a waste of time to them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1 761000/1761289.stm
When it comes to technology, it's middle-class consumers and their tastes, needs and expectations that determine success or failure
I absolutely agree. Since the introduction of the original macintosh, Apple has been striving for an "appliance": you just plug it in and it works. There's no unnecessary complexity. You use it, you don't tweak and tune it. It's in the background.
Here's an example for you: Most people just drive their automobiles. They don't know, and don't care, how they work. With the exception of the windsheild washers, they don't check the fluid levels. They don't look for wear patterns on the tires. Many can't even change a tire or find the fuse box.
Remember the original iMac? It was pretty much universally panned by pundits, geeks and others who "know about computers"... and it sold like crazy! I see the same tired analyses trotted out this time around. They ignore the simple truth that macs are designed for the vast majority of people who don't care about computers. They want to pay attention to the work they're doing; not to the tool they are using. Cool is just the sizzle that sells the usability steak.
Behold the Kenworth Pilgrimage! http://poseur.4x4.org/futuresuv.html
OWC sells a leather carrying case for the iPod for $29.
Details are at http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Column =Description&Criteria=ipod
There's a good chance that those prices might be in Canadian dollars (63 cents each), since the article was in in Time Canada. The price of "old-style" iMacs is $1,200-$2,300 CDN ($800-$1,500 US)
Actually, it's perfectly legal to make copies of music (tho' not software) and to give it away to your friends. That's why, here in Canada for example, we have a surcharge on blank tapes and recordable CDs. The surcharge is redistributed to record companies and artists as royalties. That's why it's legal to record a TV show and view it at a more convenient time. Napster users never broke the law, but Napster the company did, because it tried to be a (for profit) music distribution channel that was not authorized by people who owned the copyrights. The entertainment industry will never prosecute an individual who occasionally gives some music to a friend, because they would laughed out of court at a jury trial and then humilated in the press.
Back on the topic of this warez bust, I think the judge(s) will be pretty peeved when they find out what the actual value of these warez are, vs. the comicly overinflated numbers we've been given so far. I think that the purpose of this bust is good P.R.; not good law. IANAL, but I predict that after point has been made, most of those arrested will get off rather lightly. Besides, some of these people are at the "best" schools, and they'll have some of the "best" family & friends... another group you really don't want to piss off
There IS an ozone hole over the Arctic. Due to different weather patterns it is a bit smaller than the one over the Antarctic. The ozone holes grow every every spring and shrink later in the year. The reason you're hearing about the southern ozone hole is that it's spring in the southern hemisphere. The reason you're not hearing about the northen hole is that spring is 6 months away in the northern hemispere.
That would certainly generate x-rays!
iCab and Lynx are still blocked unless you send a fake browser identity
Don't worry. I'm sure that every other nation will trust the U.S.A. to act in their best interest
... and there's the resulting competitive DIS-advantage for U.S. companies
I don't plan to stop purchasing CD's... I *WILL*, however, return every defective/mis-labeled CD for a refund. Because the industry is in a downturn, "lost sales" mearly reinforce the arguments these weasels use to support copy protection. Returns, on the other hand, cost retailers and distributors "real money" and send the unambiguous message that the product is crap